Today in PR: Get Seahawks tickets, support Tuba Man

Tickets for Tuba Man
With prices below face value, it’s a terrible time to be selling Seahawks tickets. Resigned to a bad team and worse profits, one local seller is putting the spotlight on Seattle’s beloved Tuba Man — a stadium busker who passed away after a violent attack this month. SeattleTixx.com has announced it will give 10 percent of all Seahawks ticket sales to the Edward the Tuba Man McMichael Memorial Fund, effective immediately. Spokeswoman Stephanie Chang said she and her colleagues saw Tuba Man regularly and mourned the loss. “We are fans first and foremost,” she said. Call 1-888-987-TIXX and mention Tuba Man for more information.

Search us, save dogsDogpile.com is out to lure Google-bound animal lovers. The Seattle company says it will donate money to the ASPCA every time a user searches on its site. “You search, we rescue. It’s as simple as that,” reads the press release. The company, which uses a dog paw in its logo, wants to raise $1 million through “Search and Rescue” through the end of 2009. They were up over $70,000 Thursday. Leave it to a Seattle search site to hit all platforms to promote the program. Its multimedia press release includes sharing tools, a photo gallery, even a YouTube video.

Drunk on art
And for those of you who have always dreamed of seeing your art on hard liquor, some national PR news. 1800 Tequila is promoting itself with a “Design Your Own Bottle” art contest. Artists upload their work to www.1800Tequila.com, see their designs on tequila bottles, and get friends to buy them. Here’s a gallery of what they’ve got so far. The grand prize is $10,000. Deadline for entry is Dec. 14.